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Educating for Peace and Global Citizenship: Emerging principles from practice
Dr. Anita Yudkin
Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education Paris, France January 28-30, 2015
1996
Cooperation Agreement
University of Puerto Rico
and UNESCO
UNESCO Chair for Peace Education
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Educating within and from the university:
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Ten principles from practice
1. Peace education needs to be contextualized …
Amidst Horror and Hope: Roads Towards Peace in Puerto Rico Photo Exhibit by Ricardo Alcaraz (2012)
University of Puerto Rico - February 9, 2011 Alexis Massol, Casa Pueblo - Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
Peace
Human Rights Conflict Violence Security
Peace
Sustainable Development Participation
Non-violent action
1. Peace education needs to be contextualized …
2. Peace education must raise awareness of the relationship between global and local issues …
3. The central concepts of peace are best understood through lived meaningful examples of peacebuilding …
Forum Science, Rights and Human Security (2012) Presentations by Casa Pueblo, Iniciativa Comunitaria, and GAIA Conferencie on Human Security
Students and personnel from Nuestra Escuela shared experiences with future teachers (2007)
4. Peace, like human rights, are learned as they are expressed through the body and the arts …
Performance and art work by University
High School Students on Human Rights (2011)
5. Peace education promotes understanding, solidarity and shared endeavors …
Solidarity Encounter
Women from Vieques and
Okinawa (2010)
6. An active practice for peace develops when future teachers create meaningful activities for student learning…
Miriam Ortiz Aponte
Festival del Juguete No Bélico 2004
Proyecto Caribeño de Justicia y Paz
Rossana Rodríguez
Festival del Juguete No Bélico 2002
Proyecto Caribeño de Justicia y Paz
7. Active learning leads to understanding of concepts, critical thinking, and practical knowledge …
Students from Peace Education courses (2010, 2012) engaged in activities about understanding difference and children’s rights. Activities adapted from Compass: A Manual on Human Rights Education with Young People.
8. Reflection can lead to deeper understanding of the relationship between peace knowledge, pedagogical
practice, and action …
This course has made me have many clashes of thoughts, transformation of others, and countless hours of reflection. I must admit that many of my perspectives about society, the world we live in, education, and our rights have been completely changed, giving way to new and fresh ideas that seek to change the world.
Verónica Bou I learned that what is most important and essential for peace education is the concept of transformation that leads to action. I understand that
action is doing, carrying through what you wish to achieve, precise and determinate objectives. Action is creating results, results for the common good, to improve, to perfectly achieve your desires and motivations!
Yamilet Ortiz This course has given me the tools to try to contribute something more to my work as a professional in my county, to seek to make change in
everything I do, to defend a better way and rights for the dispossessed.. . . Even though it is easy at times to forget what one has learned, when the process for reaching this learning has been one of constant reflection and internalizing, I think it is hard to erase what we have learned here.
Héctor Robles
What was most important in working the reflexive diaries for the whole semester was to look at daily news and public events and what these mean,t and their implications for peace education. To use common sense and my own judgment to analyze readings, talk,s and events related to educating for peace. Nastashia Rivera
During this course… I have grown and have developed as a better human being… This course has made me reflect on my behaviors and how I
treat others, and in what way I can be part of the changes for a better society. Stephanie Morales I have allowed my dreams to develop wings and opened them to the wind and fly. I have left the chains of meaningless talk and have begun to
firmly state my aspirations, dreams and ideals. Sofía Reeser
9. Promoting spaces for creative research can lead to lifelong committed action projects for peace …
• Creating spaces for integration: Workshops for leaders commited to diversity. Patsy Cadalzo Rodriguez
• Diary with a woman’s name: Faces and voices for a culture of peace. Judith Conde
• Preparing teachers in hope: Human rights, education and gender. Irma Lugo
• We are special in special ways: Stories to sensitize children towards diversity. Isabel Febles Iguina
• Schools for peace: Dynamic encounters for elementary school students and teachers. Joan Arelis Figueroa
• Growing up green: Educational alternatives in nature for children with autism. Yolanda González http://www.creciendoverde.com
• Harvesting hope… Education space for peace, creativity and freedom for children hospitalized with cancer. Rosaline Gotay
• Let me tell you about my life: MovieSpace for education. Leticia Gutiérres Collazo
• Transforming conflicts into creative energy!. Carmen Guzmán López
• ECOPAZ: Curriculum enrichment guide. Carlos Muñiz Osorio. http://proyectoecopaz.org
• One, two three… Camera in action: Dialogical workshops to problematize daily school practices. Víctor Rivera Pastrana
9. Promoting spaces for creative research can lead to lifelong committed action projects for peace …
http://www.proyectoecopaz.org
http://www.creciendoverde.org
9. Promoting spaces for creative research can lead to lifelong committed action projects for peace…
10. Peace education fosters shared learning towards hope, possibility and transformation …
Towards a Possible World Free From Violence: Pedagogies, Proposals, and Politics for Human Rights and Peace International Institute on Peace Education, University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico 2013
Learning from peace education for global citizenship…
Global citizenship education aims to empower
learners to engage and assume active roles both
locally and globally to face and resolve global
challenges and ultimately to become proactive
contributors to a more just, peaceful, tolerant,
inclusive, secure, and sustainable world.
Global Citizenship Education: An Emerging Perspective. UNESCO, 2013, p. 6.
Contact Information
Dr. Anita Yudkin
Coordinator
UNESCO Chair for Peace Education
University of Puerto Rico
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